New records and notes on the geographical distribution of the colonial cup coral Coenocyathus bowersi Vaughan, 1906 (Cnidaria, Scleractinia) from northern Chile

By

Méndez-Abarca, Felipe
Pepe-Victoriano, Renzo
Mundaca, Enrique A.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2022-12-17

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

18

Series / Issue

Issue: 6

Pages

1333--1336

Subjects

Antofagasta , Chilean coast , Hexacorallia , Iquique , Pacific coast , Taltal

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/18.6.1333

 

Abstract

We present two new records of the colonial cup coral Coenocyathus bowersi Vaughan, 1906 from northern Chile. Colonies were collected off the coastal of Taltal, Antofagasta Region, and off the coast of the city of Iquique, Tarapacá Region, both in northern Chile. Our finds confirm the presence of this species on the Chilean coast and extend the geographic range of this species approximately 765 km north from the only other known occurrences of C. bowersi in Chile.